Book launch: Critical Strategies in Art and Media — with brief remarks by Marco Deseriis (NYU), Steve Kurtz (Critical Art Ensemble), Andy Bichlbaum (The Yes Men), Ken Wark (NSU), and Trebor Scholz (NSU) :: April 15, 2010; 6:30 – 8:15 pm :: Wollman Hall, New School University, 65 West 11th St, 5th Floor, New York, NY.
For centuries, art has been put on pedestals and in pillories, literally and figuratively, over its supposed capacity to carry a critical, political charge. Yet the trends of the last few decades – the birth pangs of hypercapital and environmental catastrophe – have hardly brought about any form of art potent enough to meet challenges on that scale. Continue reading